This task is designed as a hands-on activity where students visit two competing retailers an act as a mystery shopper and evaluate the retail design, atmosphere, and overall presentation of the players. This then leads into an in-class discussion on retail atmospherics and how it impacts shopping behavior as well as consumer perceptions.
Mystery Shopper Exercise and Worksheet (Retailing) Review the Teaching Activity
This Starbucks case study focuses on their longstanding “third place” concept, which has been a key component of their success and differentiation. However, your students will need to assess whether this “third place” offering remains a viable strategy in today’s marketing environment, considering trends like remote work, increased competition, cost of living concerns, and shifting consumer expectations.
Starbucks Third Place Positioning – Still Relevant? Review the Teaching Activity
In this mini case study, students explore the strategic challenges facing Starbucks, including its drift away from its core brand identity and its “third place” experience. Due to its expansion and diverse product offerings, Starbucks strengths have transformed into potential weaknesses. Students will review how operational inefficiencies, market pressures, and changing consumer behaviors have impacted the brand, and assess whether the proposed strategic changes will be effective. NOTE: This activity can also be run as a video case study, with an optional detailed video to show students.
Addressing the Challenges Facing Starbucks Review the Teaching Activity
This debate activity explores whether a humorous anti-drink-driving campaign can lead to meaningful behavior change or if it primarily generates attention. Students will review the case study and a focus group discussion to understand differing perspectives before forming groups to debate the topic. It is a variation of another teaching activity of Using Humor Appeals for a Social Marketing Cause.
Debate: Using Humor Appeals for Behavioral Change Review the Teaching Activity
This case study examines the challenges of brand repositioning using Jaguar’s 2024 strategy. Students will analyze key marketing decisions, including the promotional video and their concept car launch. The case encourages critical thinking about creative messaging, brand management, strategy, DEI issues, and the risks of targeting new consumers while potentially alienating loyal customers.
Jaguar Rebranding and Repositioning Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
This is a points-based game built around 10 ethical and social dilemmas (trade-offs). In each round, students need to make a strategic decision that will add/remove points for profits, customer satisfaction, staff satisfaction, and ethical behavior. But what is more important to your students – profit maximization or running a well-balanced business? Designed as a game to make ethical decisions fun, enjoyable, and more real-world based. Note: This is an updated version of the existing Marketing Ethics Decision Game.
Marketing Ethics Game: Version 2 Review the Teaching Activity
In this exercise, students go beyond the traditional marketing orientations and explore the emerging eras of experience, digital, relationships, and sustainability and ethics. A helpful activity for students to see where the field of marketing is heading.
Emerging Marketing Eras Review the Teaching Activity
This is a teaching activities designed to introduces students to the concepts and challenges of new products and the decision of whether to introduce them. It is a good foundational task to lead into this teaching activity: New Product Evaluation Challenges.
Key Challenges of New Products Review the Teaching Activity
In this task, students use Porter’s Five-forces model to help analyze the fast-food industry in the U.S. They have been provided with key information and data to enable a deeper level of industry analysis.
Industry Analysis Using Porter’s Five Forces Model Review the Teaching Activity
In this activity, students explore Aldi supermarkets and their operations in the United States and how they managed to grow and become successful in the “generic” supermarket retailing sector.
Aldi Supermarkets Differentiation Case Study Review the Teaching Activity